Paul Ryan Kisses Koch Ass

Republican House speaker, Paul Ryan, doesn't get it. They should be thanking him, not the other way around.  Oh, wait a second. He gets his reward.

Ryan offered up a brief video thanking America's billionaires network for making tax reform for billionaires a reality.


"Your network has been instrumental for allowing us to reach so many milestones that have long been talked about, but until this year, have not been achieved," Ryan said in a three-minute video message aired to hundreds of Republican mega-donors attending a three-day meeting in California.

"And because of your help, we have been able to take the ball and run with it," he said.

Ryan, the House Speaker, rattled off policy priorities for 2018 that align with the influential Koch network's goals, including deregulation and an overhaul of the criminal-justice system.

Are Establishment Republicans Cowering in Their Cellars?

Once he's sworn into office, could Trump unleash his very own, Republican Reichsmordwoche  or "night of the long knives"? That was the week when Adolph Hitler purged his movement of potential threats, such as SA head Ernst Rhom.

The number murdered by the SS and Gestapo is unknown. 85 prominent Nazis were executed, possibly hundreds. A thousand others, Nazis and critics were arrested and taken away.

Flash forward to November, 2016. Republican House Speaker, Paul Ryan, showed up on TV Wednesday morning with knee pads on, swearing allegiance up and down to Donald Trump, who he praised for single-handedly winning the White House, the House and the Senate for the Republicans and promising that he would do whatever Donald wanted - anything. Anything.

The problem is that Trump whipped his followers into a foaming at the mouth frenzy and now they want blood, starting with the traitors in their own ranks.

As Barack Obama used to say, elections have consequences, and the new American right — let's call them that, because they loathe the old American right — is hungry for consequences to begin.

They want a reckoning for all those Republican traitors who repudiated Trump during the campaign (one of Trump's spokespeople told a reporter election night his boss has a long enemies list) and action on all those promises, particularly the big six: The Wall, Lock Up Hillary, Deport the Illegals, Seal off America to Muslims, Repeal Obamacare, and force companies to Bring Back Those Jobs from Overseas.

Outrage artist and early Trump supporter Ann Coulter was prominent on Breitbart News Thursday, complaining that too often, Republicans go all soft in the middle and break faith, once in office.

Coulter has helpfully organized Trump's first 100 days in office.

Day One, she says, Trump should "start building the wall." She then lists 98 more entries titled "continue building the wall."

...Locking Up Hillary, the signature chant of crowds at Trump rallies, is also an item the base regards as urgent.

Breitbart editor at large Peter Schweizer was warning on Thursday that Trump, who repeatedly denounced Hillary Clinton as a criminal, must make good on his promise to appoint a special Hillary prosecutor.

...Among other Trump promises less discussed today, but certain to be insisted upon by his base: defunding Planned Parenthood and getting rid of the Environmental Protection Agency; ordering heavy surveillance of U.S. mosques and closing some if need be; recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel; bringing back torture for detainees; "bombing the shit out of ISIS"; getting out of the Iran deal; imposing new taxes on imports; getting rid of gun-free zones at schools; reversing Obama's executive orders preventing deportation of some illegal immigrants; massive tax cuts; and repealing regulations curbing Wall Street greed and protecting consumers.

Trump has a well-deserved reputation for overselling, promising what he could not possibly deliver, milking Gullibillies and then leaving them holding the bag. He's made a lot of promises, promises of blood. His base is going to expect him to deliver. These are indeed interesting times.

Paul Ryan's Greasy Soup Kitchen Stunt

Romney running mate Paul Ryan really doesn't like the poor or their soup kitchens.  In fact, if he had his way, he'd slash the very social spending they depend on.

That's why it was curious when Ryan, with wife and three kids in tow, showed up uninvited at the soup kitchen in the poorest town in America, Youngston, Ohio.  The blatant hypocrisy even made the pages of Germany's Der Spiegel:

On Saturday afternoon, the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan paid a short visit to the dining hall for a photo op with his wife and three children as they helped doing the dishes.
The only problem was that serving had ended. The kitchen had already been scrubbed clean. [The] homeless people had all gone. Now the director of the Mahoning County St. Vincent de Paul Society has criticised the Vice-Presidential candidate for using the diner for political reasons.

“They showed up there and they did not have permission and it’s against our bylaws to do that sort of thing. We are apolitical because the majority of our food is from private donations,” Brian Antal told the Youngstown Vindicator.

 Infuriation at the episode has certainly not been mellowed by the fact that Paul Ryan’s own economic plan sees cutbacks in Federal subsidies to charitable organisations such as the one which runs the Youngstown dining hall. Last year, the hall received some DKK70,000 in Federal support, while private donations totalled about DKK1million.

“It’s a bit hypocritical to put it mildly,” Antal says.

“We cannot accept seeming to support the Republicans by letting them use our premises for photo-ops,” he adds.

A Ryan spokesman told the US media that the visit to the dining hall had been a good opportunity to pay tribute to the voluntary work carried out by millions of Americans every day.

The worst thing is that a great many Americans still wouldn't hesitate to vote for a guy this creepy.